Yummy recipes to help my slow pregnant digestive system

[jennimoo]

Any ideas for recipes (particularly sweet ones like cake :) ) that will help with constipation. I'm pregnant and hate fybogel etc but obviously love cake so thought something high in prunes and stuff might do the job!

Any recipe ideas?

There are all sorts of carrot cake recipes and various muffins both sweet, or savoury like courgette and cheese, that might be much better than white flour sponge for your digestion.

DM used to make All bran tea cake which is yummy and there are various variations on the web.

I'm sure I've seen beetroot cake somewhere too.

If all else fails, brown toast and honey is lovely.

I feel your pain Fybogel is evil, I don't much like cheap orange squash, I like slimy very cheap tasting orange squash even less.

I used to make a tea and fruit loaf, that's a great idea, I'll track down the recipe as I'm sure it was mainly just prunes and apricots!

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1980639/all-bran-loaf-cake

You could also add prunes and dried apricots to flat jack and granola bars very easily.

Orange juice is good for constipation.

So is coffee an a faaag, but I'm guessing you're off them if pg

Thanks for ideas! Today I've cooked both my usual wait rise tea and fruit loaf (with half brown flour) and the all bran one too. Don't worry, I won't update you on effectiveness ;)

Wait rise = waitrose...